Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > We're interested in Indiana for SPARC for our T2000s. Going green, yes. More than just a question of personal preferences. Also a global responsibility. California and the E.U. are already strong players in that field of reducing CO2 emissions, while they should do more. But I think as energy prices go up and higher, we soon have no other choice anymore, so going green is nowadays even essential to stay competitive, rather than being a personal preference, or view of the world. I, personally, have moved down to a Blade 100 for that reason (I don't expect anybody to follow me, it is a "bit" slow). It takes 45 Watts, rather than the 210Watts that the SB2000 took, so it just does the job of being a slow web client, or educational pdf-reading box. But completely not usable as build machine, except or are out of town for a week. So the hungry SB2000 is already up again, every day ... While Linux basically supports the T1000/2000 (do thank Dave Miller, for this one and many other SPARC related ports and drivers, I mean real ports, not what I have done!), I think it doesn't run nearly as good on it, as OpenSolaris does. I'm looking forward to Niagara2 and Rock. If they only would arrive before time. Currently the competition is still unprepared. This will certainly change in a few years. Who will buy a SPARC then? > Providing all > the pieces come together its our intention to upgrade all of our > OpenSolaris (SPARC and Opteron) production servers to Indiana. > Well...actually we plan to convert almost all the remaining Gentoo and > Ubuntu servers at that time as well. Just waiting on the packaging > system upgrade. :-) > Mhh. > I suppose that's a long way of saying count us as a vote for Indiana > for SPARC...Xorg is not so critical though for us. >
Hey ..., will you?!! No no, that's okay. The T2000 has wonderful ALOM2 (or how it is currently called) / RSC access, plus via ssh and not telnet. Who needed a frame buffer there (as long as it is used as a server, rather than as personal workstation). > Best Regards, > Jason Regards, %martin _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
